Ravikumar Kashi Artist, Writer, Educator

We don’t end at our edges

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2025

Liminal membrane

Daphne fiber pulp, H16’x W22”

We don’t end at our edges explores the possibilities of pulp painting. Hovering between drawing, painting and sculpture, this body of work examines the porosity of skin, membrane and cloth, allowing for effortless movement and transformation.

The exhibition presents a selection from this ongoing series, where immersion meets interaction, and paper asserts its materiality and morphs into sculpture. This exhibition, a segment of Kashi’s larger body of work, We don’t end at our edges, invites viewers into a space where mark-making, language and materiality intersect.

Kashi carefully draws with paper pulp, much like paint, into letters of the Kannada script, forming delicate lattice structures that hover between the written and the sculptural. The paper becomes a metaphor for porous boundaries: between self and world, text and form, presence and disappearance. In Kashi’s hands, words dissolve, re-form and breathe, much like language itself.

Blurring distinctions between drawing, painting and sculpture, his works hold a quiet tension: two-dimensional yet tactile, ephemeral yet grounded. The natural fibres, pulped and sculpted in his Bengaluru studio, cast shifting shadows, evoking the impermanence of language and the materiality of thought.

Kashi’s deep engagement with the language and script of Kannada (his mother tongue) stems not only from personal experience, but also from the way he perceives it, which is a web that holds the precious memories of linguistic culture. Through his work, Ravikumar Kashi invites viewers to reflect on the interconnected nature of life. He says, “I am searching for a visually poetic zone which cannot be explained, but experienced with as little explanation as possible.”

Image credits: Philipe Calia for the Museum of Art & Photography (MAP).